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N.C. State's 'no trespass' letter to disassociated booster Eric Leak

Eric Prisbell, USA TODAY Sports
7:39 p.m. EDT October 23, 2013

North Carolina State Wolfpack forward C.J. Leslie (5) reacts during the second half of the second game of the Jimmy V Classic against the Connecticut Huskies at Madison Square Garden.(Photo: Brad Penner, USA TODAY Sports)

North Carolina State university police have issued a "no trespass" letter to disassociated booster Eric Leak and his wife Emily one month after a USA TODAY Sports public records request revealed that a vehicle registered to the couple was cited for campus parking tickets.

"After learning recently that Emily Leak's automobile had been ticketed twice on campus in the spring of 2013, University Police issued a 'no trespass' letter to Eric and Emily Leak in October 2013 prohibiting them from stepping onto N.C. State property," university spokesperson Brad Bohlander told USA TODAY Sports in a statement.

The university's action represents its latest attempt to eliminate all influence by and contact with Eric Leak, who played wide receiver for N.C. State from 1997-2000, has with Wolfpack athletes.

N.C. State formally disassociated Leak from the program on Nov. 23, 2011, after the NCAA found that he provided basketball players C.J. Leslie and Tracy Smith with extra benefits. The disassociation letter, which was obtained by USA TODAY Sports, states that Leak is prohibited from "any contact" with N.C. State athletes during the 10-year period of the disassociation.

Leslie received a three-game suspension during the 2011-2012 basketball season because he and his half-brother had received $410 worth of benefits.

Concerns were raised in September 2012 that Leak was not honoring the disassociation letter. The Raleigh News & Observer quoted Leak that month saying that he had contacted then-N.C. State football player David Amerson in June 2012.

In response, N.C. State sent Leak a letter requesting that he cease and desist from contacting any N.C. State student-athletes. In the letter, Eileen Goldgeier, the university's vice chancellor and general counsel, wrote, "N.C. State will not tolerate aberrant conduct from an agent, runner or financial adviser. Furthermore, N.C. State will seek to take all actions necessary to protect its interests and to preserve the eligibility of its student-athletes."

In addition, N.C. State also requested assistance from the North Carolina Secretary of State in investigating whether Leak was acting in violation of the Uniform Athlete Agent Act.

"Through the disassociation, the referral to the Secretary of State, and the trespass letter, NC State has actively distanced N.C. State athletics and student-athletes from Eric and Emily Leak," Bohlander said. "The ongoing investigation is being managed by the Secretary of State."

N.C. State's letter, addressed to Leak from the North Carolina State Campus Police Department, reads:

Dear Mr Leak

This letter and the attached notice is a trespass warning from NCSU Campus Police Department. We have been recently made aware of a disassociation letter issued to Mr Leak by the NCSU Athletic Department on November 23, 2011. The Transportation Department at NCSU has a record of one or more of your vehicles being on campus and receiving parking citations for violations in areas are Athletic Facilities as recently as May 2013. In addition, a background check of Mr Leak has revealed a current Order of Arrest out of Union County from 2003. Due to these situations and your non-affiliation with the university, you are hereby trespassed from ALL OWNED OR LEASED NCSU PROPERTY and not allowed to be on such property. This order is in effect as of this date and will be in effect immediately.

If you feel this action has been unfairly taken upon you there are instructions on the reverse side to appeal the trespass warning. If you wish to appeal, follow those instructions to the letter, but do not return to campus until you are instructed that you are allowed to do so or you will be arrested for trespassing.

Eric Prisbell, a national college football reporter for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @EricPrisbell.